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Craft brewer BrewDog has snapped up the Draft House chain of pubs founded by industry entrepreneur Charlie McVeigh in its first major acquisition.

The deal will see the Scottish business buy all 14 Draft House sites in London and the South East, increasing the number of UK bars BrewDog owns by more than a third, from its current 33.

BrewDog said all of Draft House’s 213 staff would be kept on and that it would be investing in the sites with potential expansions possible at some.

Draft House launched its first site in 2009 in Battersea and since then has opened a further 12 bars in the capital including Camden, Paddington, Tower Bridge and Old Street. In 2016 it opened a bar in Milton Keynes,...